None of you will believe until you love for your brother what you love for yourself. - Hadith 13
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None of you will believe until you love for your brother what you love for yourself. - Hadith 13 ✶
You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. - Mark 12:31
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You shall love your neighbor as yourself. There is no other commandment greater than these. - Mark 12:31 ✶
Whatever is disagreeable to yourself, do not do unto others. - The Buddha, Udana-Varga 5.18
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Whatever is disagreeable to yourself, do not do unto others. - The Buddha, Udana-Varga 5.18 ✶
You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. - Leviticus 19:18
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You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. - Leviticus 19:18 ✶
This is the sum of duty. Do not unto others that which would cause you pain if done to you. - Mahabharata 5, 1517
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This is the sum of duty. Do not unto others that which would cause you pain if done to you. - Mahabharata 5, 1517 ✶
The Voice
of Faith
At Kansas Interfaith Action, we recognize our moral responsibility to engage in the public square. As people of faith and conscience, we find unity in the common threads of care and justice woven through our sacred texts - we are called to action. For citizens of the United States of America, one of the most powerful tools for putting faith into action is exercising our right to vote. Thus, our faith must inform our vote.
Whether you are Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Lutheran, Methodist, or Evangelical, the prophets are clear and unified in their voice. We must care for one another. We must care for our earth. We must vote for public servants who will enact policy that protects the most vulnerable of all creation.
We are called to pray, act, and vote. Join us.
Let’s vote!
Helpful
Tools
Election Season Prayers and Liturgy.
These prayers have been created and curated by Kansas Interfaith Action and are intended to be used by individuals and by faith communities in the days leading up to the election, inspiring people of faith to vote, and/or in the days following the election, allowing us to process outcomes.
What Can Faith Communities Do Legally?
Although 501C3 orgs are prohibited from directly endorsing candidates or parties, there’s still a lot that faith communities can do!
Talk about the issues from the pulpit and in adult education classes.
Publicize KIFA’s Faith and Public Policy Forum Series.
Join KIFA’s Volunteer Voter to Voter Team
A helpful guide from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on “Being a Public Church.”
Sermon/Preaching Resources
Here are a couple of resources for sermons and liturgies around the topics of voting, political action, and civic engagement from the Christian tradition.
Sermon Starters & Liturgical Resources from Texas Impact
Resources from Working Preacher
Why is it important to preach and advocate during the election season?
Voter Information
You can check your registration, make a plan to vote, and research every name and measure on your ballot at FAITH VOTES.
KIFA
Election
Season
Prayer
Source of all, we give thanks for the people of faith who join together in the work of justice in our state.
This work is difficult, and so we need one another.
As we pray together,
engage together,
learn together,
advocate together,
mobilize together
and vote together,
May we put our faith into action, trusting that as we do so, we become the beloved community, united in compassion for all of creation.
Amen.